Z10 Contact Transfer Possible Solution

So, like me, you couldn’t wait and got yourself a brand spanking new z10, Congratulations! it’s awesome. apart from one major oversight.. TRANSFERING CONTACTS! what a mess BB.. i don’t know how you managed to screw this up?

I’ve burnt 6 or so hours of my life trying to figure out how to get my contact from my bold to my z10.

2, move contacts via Bluetooth to the iMAC: surprisingly it moves them ALL via a vcard.

3, open the vcard in apple address book or import them into the apple address book.

4, select( highlight/Make blue) all the contacts in the apple address book

5, export to vcard, save it someplace you can find easily

6, Sign in to or create a Gmail email account.

7, in Gmail you'll notice a menu labelled as 'more'. select contacts

8, once in the contacts area, it'll will be empty if not done before.

9, if empty you’ll be presented with the import option, select 'import using Vcard'.

10. BAM, all contacts imported into Gmail in the correct format.

now back to the z10

1, create a new account and select 'advanced' at the bottom of the screen

2, select 'Activesync'

3, Fill in the details, username is the same as your email Gmail email address.

4, domain is . 'm.google.com'

5, Save.

6, BAM!

Done. all contacts and other bits should find their way to your z10. if you cannot see all the contacts, just flick through the contacts pages in your Gmail. i found doing this 'pushes' the contacts to the z10.

BB.. I don’t know what you were thinking? how can something so basic be such a pain in the rear?!

Re: Z10 Contact Transfer Possible Solution

After trying ActiveSync and numerous other fixes, including a battery pull, my contacts finally starting populating after I used the phone keypad and selected 'contacts' at the bottom of the screen. It took a minute for the sync from Gmail. I had spent several hours trying bluetooth, BB Link, etc, and nothing was working, so I don't really know what the real fix was, I'm just passing along the last action I took before my Contacts 'woke up'.

Re: Z10 Contact Transfer Possible Solution iCloud

My contacts came across perfectly through icloud without any fuss. If you don't have one, set up an icloud email account which is free for a reasonable amount of space. On your MAC in Contacts preference activate icloud. On the BB 10 once you add the icloud mail, it will add the contacts and hopefully calendar (have not got that working yet, but am cautiously optimistic).

Re: Z10 Contact Transfer Possible Solution iCloud

I would try my link and do as it asks you. Definitely a pain in the butt. I'm disappointed too but in the end it will be worth it. I love the keyboard as I always had trouble with the 9800. It was a poor way to start.